AAL - MYLIFE: Multimedia technology for independence and participation for people with dementia

The primary objective of the MYLIFE-project is to support self-serviced participation and quality of life in home environments of elderly persons with cognitive disabilities by transforming freely available internet-based services into an integrated, acce ssible and easy-to-use package on touch-screen equipment. 1. Challenges addressed: Improvement of older peoples' access to, acceptance, trust, and use of ICT-based services, customisation of services to individual needs and wishes, and accessibility of th e HCI. 2. Target groups: Primary end-users are people with beginning dementia or dementia. Secondary end-users are caregivers, i.e. family members and/or health-care personnel, depending on the life and family situation of the person. 3. Technology to be employed: Different Android-based solutions implemented on touch-screens (mobile phones, tablet PCs, PCs). Content will be created by deploying freely available online services on Internet on a self-serve basis. The solution will be implemented as platfo rm-independent services, the user interface of which will highly accessible. 4. Business model: Software as a service: Software that is freely available over the Internet and is deployed to run on a PC or a mobile phone. The service provider licenses the MYLIFE product to the end-user through a subscription or a "pay-as-you-go" model. 5. End user participation is taken care of by a model in which SMBs providing technology is placed in the coordinating country, and end-users in coordinating country and all other participating countries. The user organisations operate within dementia care and service development. 6. Ethical issues have a prominent role in the project through dedicated work package. 7. Impacts: MYLIFE will reduce social isolation and boredom , stimulate cognitive ability, enable persons with dementia live at home longer, enable participation and self-servicing, reduce caregiver's stress, reduce the cost of equipment in the home for telecare.